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The 24 Laziest Countries
With the word's best athletes competing in Vancouver, The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to determine the most slothful nations on the planet. Welcome to the Couch Potato Olympics.
Galvanized by al Qaeda's failed Christmas Day attack, airports are fast-tracking new devices that digitally strip-search passengers. The Daily Beast goes inside the rise of the machines to discover how they work, the privacy concerns that could scuttle them, and the companies that stand to benefit from their sale. Xtra Insight: Tunku Varadarajan: Political Correctness vs. Mass Murder
What We Should Do About Afghanistan and Pakistan
After Obama's strategy announcement for the troubled Afghanistan-Pakistan region, Madeleine Albright and 19 other former foreign ministers provide an exclusive step-by-step proposal for securing the region.










